The seventh and the final phase of polling for Lok Sabha elections on June 1 across seven states and the Union Territory of Chandigarh saw a voter turnout of 49.68 per cent till 3 pm, the Election Commission (ECI) said on Saturday.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday exuded confidence in forming the government of the INDIA bloc at the Centre after the Lok Sabha elections results will be declared on June 4 and said that the Bharatiya Janata Party will not cross 140 seats.
Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy along with his deputy Bhatti Vikramarka visited the state governor Radhakrishnan at Raj Bhavan on Saturday and invited him for the government's 10th Telangana State Formation Day celebration on June 2.
The seventh and final phase of polling in the largest festival of democracy started on Saturday as voting started in the last 57 parliamentary constituencies at 7 am across seven states and the Union Territory of Chandigarh.
Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar on Saturday assured that NCP MLA Sunit Tingre is ready for any kind of inquiry in the Pune car accident case, which took the lives of two IT professionals who were travelling on a bike on the night of May 19.
Actor Ayushmann Khurrana, who hails from Chandigarh, specially travelled to the capital of Punjab from Mumbai to fulfil his duties towards the country by casting his vote in the final and seventh phase of the Lok Sabha Elections on Saturday.
Rajya Sabha MP and RJD leader Manoj Jha on Saturday said that no matter the "sponsored" exit polls' prediction the INDIA alliance will be in a strong position to form the next government at the Centre.